Inspirational industrial designer and chairman of GK Design, has died, aged 85.
Kenji Ekuan, famed in the motorcycle world for overseeing the design of various Yamaha models, passed on Saturday from heart problems. Other than the red topped soy sauce bottle, the Yamaha VMAX is often cited as GK Design’s most innovative design.
Mr Ekuan spent the majority of his youth in Hawaii before moving to Japan post World War II, attending Tokyo University of Arts and later founding GK Industrial Design Laboratory in 1957.